Surprising Jamaican Roots

[Tropicana]

I didn't know he had Jamaican Roots.

Farrakhan was born Louis Eugene Wolcott (also mistakenly spelled Walcott)[3] in The Bronx, New York, the younger of two sons of Sarah Mae Manning (16 January 1900 – 18 November 1988) and Percival Clark, immigrants from the Caribbean islands. His mother was born in Saint Kitts and Nevis. His father was a Jamaican native and worked as a taxicab driver. After Louis' father died in 1936, the Wolcott family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where they settled in the West Indian neighborhood of the Roxbury area.

[Tropicana]

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This is also surprising:

The top 10 US communities with the highest percentage of people claiming Jamaican ancestry are:


Blue Hills, Connecticut (neighborhood) 23.90%
Lauderdale Lakes, Florida 18.80%
Lauderhill, Florida 17.60%
South Floral Park, New York 15.50%
Miramar, Florida 15.40%
Bloomfield, Connecticut and Mount Vernon, New York 12.90%
Lakeview, New York 12.70%
North Lauderdale, Florida 11.10%
Uniondale, New York 11.0%
El Portal, Florida 8.50%

Source: http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Jamaican.html

[jah_yout]

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you should try reading posts other than the ones you started sometimes...

you will be amazed how much you can find out

mi gawn

[mangoskin]

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he was also a calypso singer

[evanovitch]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you should try reading posts other than the ones you started sometimes...

you will be amazed how much you can find out

mi gawn </div></div>

this too is true...n not juss fi Tropi... ah sah...but Tropi is foreva saying how many people she block so u haffi see wid har....gwane tru Tropi...betta late dan neva wen it come to u history n culture......

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you should try reading posts other than the ones you started sometimes...

you will be amazed how much you can find out

mi gawn </div></div>

That's not fair. I DO read other posts but sometimes I am busy and travelling so I don't get to read as much as I would like to.

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: mangoskin</div><div class="ubbcode-body">he was also a calypso singer </div></div>

Now that I don't believe...where did you see that?

[Tropicana]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah_yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">you should try reading posts other than the ones you started sometimes...

you will be amazed how much you can find out

mi gawn </div></div>

this too is true...n not juss fi Tropi... ah sah...but Tropi is foreva saying how many people she block so u haffi see wid har....gwane tru Tropi...betta late dan neva wen it come to u history n culture...... </div></div>

Exactly.

[mangoskin]

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&quot;The Charmer&quot; was his calypso name - wiki, also bing, google
also you tube has his performances (I cant access it from work...)
you can check it out..

[Tropicana]

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You have got to be kidding. He is such a stuffed shirt I would never have figured him for a Calypsonian.

[Tropicana]

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Here he is at 16. He actually had some personality then:

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....and as a Calypsonian...great West Indian accent too:

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What happened?

[Tropicana]

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...and here he is speaking in Jamaica...based on his speech, clearly he is one of us....

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[sistactry]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tropicana</div><div class="ubbcode-body">You have got to be kidding. He is such a stuffed shirt I would never have figured him for a Calypsonian.

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dwl, what a ting ehhh

i did always luvvv dat man,

[Tropicana]

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So how come he is part Jewish and yet he is always putting down Jews. Did he ask some Jewish girl to the prom and she rejected him? That would do it?

Drake is part Jewish and he was rejected at a predominantly Jewish high school despite being a regular on a TV series during his teens and he doesn't bash Jewish people. He does speak of the rejection though.

[mangoskin]

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plenty jews in the music industry, drake smart not to [censored] them off